Awakened: The Spirit King!

The monster begged Xie Yang to spare its life while sneak attacking him. It used its mental powers to gain control over a few too many sharp shards of bones, and each of them, it shot towards Xie Yang's defenseless back.

He wasn't able to see as he didn't have eyes behind his back.

Chen Yuan, Mo Mingzhu, and her childhood friends were busy fending off the skeleton warriors.

As they knew that a single mistake and error meant their death, they couldn't afford to spare a single look at the battle between Xie Yang and the Skeleton Summoner.

The only one who saw that it had launched a sneak attack at Xie Yang was Tang Yongnian.

He wanted to warn him.

However, a few skeleton warriors lunged at him the second he tried to warn Xie Yang.

Xie Yang didn't know that it was planning to kill him while acting pitiful, not that he cared.

He didn't hesitate and pushed his sword into the black orb, cutting it in half.

The shards of bones stopped a few inches away from him and then fell to the ground as the light in the skeleton summoner's eyes dimmed.

The moment he shattered its core, the magical runes' circles on the floor disappeared, and the skeleton minions shattered into pieces.

Tang Yongnian, who was getting ganged by a group of skeletons, suddenly found his situation turning around for the better.

He breathed out a sigh of relief.

"How did you know the location of my soul core?!"

However hard it was, it still wanted to ask what kind of mistake it made that led to its death.

"A lucky guess." Xie Yang replied as he gave it a toothy smile.

If it had veins and a heart, it would have spewed out a mouthful of blood!

Xie Yang was lying. He hadn't guessed its weak point guess.

He had concluded that the neck bone hid its weak point because of how offensively it had reacted after he had nearly smashed that very bone with a spiritual energy bullet.

In truth, it had given away its weak point to Xie Yang for free.

If it had better control over its emotions, it wouldn't have made such a mistake.

However, as a low-level demonic cultivator, it lacked much control over their emotions, and because it was a cultivator and lacked a brain, it didn't have much intelligence either.

The skeleton summoner saw its life flash before its soulless eyes.

It was a male cultivator who had given up on the righteous spiritual cultivation path at the age of 209.

His lifespan was coming to an end, but he didn't want to die.

He knew the way to increase his lifespan, which was to become a devil and cultivate the undying demonic path.

He only lacked the sacrifices to take that step.

Thus, he enacted a plan, a very vicious one.

He used the temptation of a secret real to lure his junior brother and sisters away from his sect, the place that had taken pity on his orphan self and sheltered him.

After taking them to the secret realm, he had mercilessly killed them and let their blood dye the ritual circle red. When it turned scarlet, demonic chants rang out and blurred its consciousness. When he regained his senses, he had become a skeleton.

He had his lifespan lengthened.

Although he was already 350 years old, he was still alive.

He was a joyful matter, but he felt no happiness, for he had to live with many defects.

He found out that the ritual had gone wrong due to the trick of his junior brother and that he had become bound to this place.

He couldn't step out of his chambers and could only wait for prey to come to him.

He needed to consume ten humans every decade, or else he would die.

He had been exposing the secret spirit realm to foolish and greedy humans and luring them to him to feast on them.

To his dismay, the prey this time had hunted him down!

He had become the prey instead of the predator!

The light flickering in its left eye vanished before its bones cracked and crumbled and fell to the ground with a heavy sound.

Most of its bones turned to ashes while Xie Yang picked up the rest, for he could tell that they were good materials.

He picked up two more things, a black spirit core full of vile and evil energy and its soul core.

The latter was broken, but he knew a way to fix it.

'I didn't expect to find something so useful so soon in this life. With it, I can cultivate life sutra. I will have two lives and extraordinary healing capabilities! I will become exceedingly hard to kill.'

Xie Yang knew in and outs of a soul core, and he also knew how he could best use it.

He was just lacking some materials to fix it.

The monster had dropped a bracelet too.

No one managed to see it before Xie Yang picked it up and stored it in his inter-spatial ring.

He didn't want them to know about its existence as he was worried they would demand for the things inside of it.

He was the one who had soloed it, so all the things should go to him.

They divided the things according to their contributions. Xie Yang had full possession over its cores while the others took the bones of the many skeletons. They didn't even dream of making so much money. They had a good haul, and they dared not trouble Xie Yang for his things. He was too strong, and Tang Yongnian didn't want to mess with him.

They were going to leave, but something caught Xie Yang's eyes.

Xie Yang noticed the truth that went unnoticed by the others.

He had found the biggest secret of this place!

It was a secret that even the owner of this chamber most likely didn't know existed!